Futures market regulators will charge more for oversight, based on new cost calculations

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is raising the fees it charges to futures exchanges and associations. These fees cover the cost of the Commission's oversight of how these organizations enforce their own rules.

The US financial system relies on self-regulatory organizations to police their own members. The government then oversees these self-regulators. This document adjusts the fees the government charges for that oversight, based on actual costs from the last three years. It means the cost of being a self-regulator just went up.